From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Thu Jan 02 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: ME Gibson Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: HELP: CAS & CLIP DNA sequencing Date: 3 Jan 1997 12:35:37 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 11 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: kevin@embra.compulink.co.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ajqip$2sr@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Could ya'll point me in the right direction? I'm looking for descriptions/references for CAS & CLIP DNA sequencing. All that I've been able to determine is that CAS is "Coupled Amplification & Sequencing". Both methods are supposed to simplify diagnostic sequencing. TIA, Mike Gibson gibson@nanospace.com From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Thu Jan 02 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: BIOSCI Administrator Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: BIOSCI/bionet miniFAQ & Fundraiser Date: 3 Jan 1997 10:49:17 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 240 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: kevin@embra.compulink.co.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ajkbd$k3j@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net (LAST REVISION: 30-JUL-95) This BIOSCI "miniFAQ" is designed to answer the questions that come up the *most frequently*. The main BIOSCI FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) is accessible on the World Wide Web at URL http://www.bio.net/. If you can not find an answer to your question in this or other documentation, the BIOSCI technical support staff answers e-mail queries sent to biosci-help@net.bio.net We can only answer questions about the use of the newsgroups and mailing lists. We unfortunately do not have the staff to do Internet information searches or answer scientific questions. Please post those to the appropriate BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. Contents: -------- 0) BIOSCI NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!! 1) Using the WWW to access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. 2) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc. 3) Examples of subscribing and unsubscribing to the mailing lists. 4) The BIOSCI user address and research interest directory. 0) BIOSCI NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!! ------------------------------ BIOSCI's government funding has been expended, and we are now operating solely from advertising revenue that we have raised from our Web site at http://www.bio.net/. We need just a few minutes of your time to help us serve you. You can do two important things which will take very little time for you individually and will immensely help us continue to help you. First, please use our WWW system at http://www.bio.net/ to access the archives. You can post or reply to messages via your Web browser as described in item #1 below. Your usage helps attract sponsors. If you contact any of our sponsors, please be sure to thank them for supporting BIOSCI. It is critical for them to get this feedback if they are to continue their sponsorship for the long term. Second, if you work for a company or organization that provides products or services of interest to the biology community, please pass this message on to your marketing or marketing communications department or other appropriate group. Please ask them to help support BIOSCI by sponsoring our Web site and explain the uses and benefits of the system to the biology community. If they are interested, they can then contact us for further information at our tech support address, biosci-help@net.bio.net. 1) Using the WWW to access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. -------------------------------------------------------- As of 10 December 1995, all BIOSCI/bionet full newsgroups are accessible through the World Wide Web (WWW) at URL http://www.bio.net. One can read and reply publicly or privately to both recent postings and archived messages through one's Web browser if it is configured properly to send e-mail. Each newsgroup is equipped with its own WAIS index. The main BIOSCI home page also has access to the BIO-JOURNALS Table of Contents database WAIS index and the BIOSCI user address database described in another item further below. 2) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc. ------------------------------------------------------- BIOSCI is a set of parallel USENET newsgroups (the "bionet" groups), mailing lists, and a hypermail archive at URL http://www.bio.net/. The same postings are distributed on all media (except for a small number of mailing-list-only groups at net.bio.net). Unfortunately it is becoming a despicable practice on the Internet (by a few people out to make a fast buck) to do automated mass postings to thousands of newsgroups and mailing lists. These attempts to grab free advertising are refered to as "spams" in the usual, somewhat boneheaded, net terminology. USENET is more susceptible to this practice, and many spams originate on the USENET groups and then are passed on to the mailing lists. However, spammers also get lists of mailing addresses and hit these too, so neither medium is immune. What should you do personally if you get junk mail? --------------------------------------------------- Just delete it and move on without reading it further. Filing a protest is becoming increasingly useless because spammers are often disguising the addresses where the messages are sent from. Unless you really understand Internet mail systems, your attempt at protest by sending replies to the message will often end up being sent to the address of an innocent person that the spammer is victimizing. What can BIOSCI/bionet do to protect its newsgroups? ---------------------------------------------------- The only solution currently available is to moderate the newsgroup. If this newsgroup is already moderated, then you are in good shape. Moderation protects the USENET distribution from about 95% of the spams that are being sent to date and protects the mailing lists completely. Moderation means, however, that someone has to take the time to review each message before it goes out. We have set up software here that simply allows the moderator to forward to an address at net.bio.net messages that (s)he wishes to have distributed. This takes no more time than that needed to read the message and pass it on, say about 1 min. per message. Most newsgroups currently have a discussion leader who is responsible for their newsgroup. The discussions leaders and their e-mail addresses are listed in the BIOSCI Information Sheet which is available on the Web at http://www.bio.net/. If a newsgroup is being hit with too many junk postings, please contact the discussion leader for that group and see if there is interest in moderating the group. Please do not assume that by simply posting a complaint to the newsgroup itself, anyone on the BIOSCI staff will act on your complaint. With close to 100 newsgroups to run, the BIOSCI staff has to rely on the discussion leaders of each newsgroup to report problems directly to us at biosci-help@net.bio.net. We will moderate any of our newsgroups if the discussion leader tells us that the readership of the group wishes to do so and if a moderator is willing to do the work. For most BIOSCI/bionet groups, this entails only a few minutes of work each day. Moderating a newsgroup will resolve probably 95% of the junk postings on the USENET distribution. Unfortunately there are easy ways for determined spammers to override the moderation mechanism on USENET, but we can protect our e-mail subscribers from unwanted postings if the newsgroup is moderated. You can also access our newsgroups over the WWW at URL http://www.bio.net. While this Web interface will not stop spammers from trying to post to the groups, this will give you yet another way, besides using USENET news, to keep the junk out of your personal mail files. For those of you with local USENET news systems, the Web interface will also give you faster access to new newsgroups and recent postings. 3) Examples of subscribing and unsubscribing to the mailing lists. ------------------------------------------------------------------ PLEASE NOTE: The BIOSCI management does NOT act on subscription/unsubscription requests that are posted improperly to the newsgroups and mailing lists. People who do this only bother everyone on the lists to no avail. Please be sure to follow the proper procedures below. Gory details are in the BIOSCI Information sheets on the Web at http://www.bio.net. Below we give an example utilizing the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS list at both of our two BIOSCI sites: Users in the Americas and Pacific Rim countries who use the BIOSCI ------------------------------------------------------------------ node at computer net.bio.net: ---------------------------- A) Determine the "listname" which is the <=8 character mail address ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ for the group. These can be found in the BIOSCI Info. Sheet. For the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS group the mailing address is methods@net.bio.net. The listname is the portion of the address to the left of the @ sign, i.e., "methods". The listname is used with the "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" commands illustrated below. B) Mail all commands in the body of a mail message addressed to biosci-server@net.bio.net. Do NOT send commands to the newsgroup posting addresses! Leave the Subject: line blank, any text on it will be ignored. 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For the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS list the USENET newsgroup name is bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts, thus the appropriate commands are sub bionet-news.bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts unsub bionet-news.bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts These commands are included in a message addressed to mxt@dl.ac.uk, NOT to the newsgroup mailing addresses. As usual, include the text in the body of the message as text on the Subject: line is ignored. To unsubscribe from all the lists at the UK node, use unsub bionet-news Please note that if the address in the list is different than the one in your mail message header, you will not be able to unsubscribe by this method. If you have problems, please mail biosci@daresbury.ac.uk. 4) The BIOSCI user address and research interest directory. ----------------------------------------------------------- Please take this opportunity to add your name, address, and research interest information to the BIOSCI User Address Database if you have not already done so. You can fill out the address form directly through our Web page at URL http://www.bio.net/adrform.html. The address database is reindexed nightly for WWW access (the URL is http://www.bio.net/). If you are not directly on the Internet but can reach it by e-mail, please use our waismail server to access the user directory. waismail use is described above. You can also request a user address form by e-mail from biosci-help@net.bio.net. Please check your database entry from time-to-time to see if your address information is still up-to-date. Because of our limited personnel resources, we ask that you resubmit a *complete* form to revise your entry; we only replace complete entries and do not have resources to edit old forms. Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson BIOSCI/bionet Manager biosci-help@net.bio.net From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Fri Jan 03 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: MRTLABS Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: clinical samples for allergy Date: 4 Jan 1997 04:47:00 -0800 Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Lines: 3 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: kevin@embra.compulink.co.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <5aljg4$t3a@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net looking for samples for various allergen-specific IgE. any help is welcome. From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Sat Jan 04 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: MRTLABS Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: clinical samples for allergy Date: 5 Jan 1997 11:31:13 -0800 Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Lines: 3 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: kevin@embra.compulink.co.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <5aovi1$qo5@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net looking for samples for various allergen-specific IgE. any help is welcome. From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Mon Jan 06 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: mag Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: Radiologist Needed: URGENT! Date: 7 Jan 1997 12:21:22 -0800 Organization: SoVerNet, Inc. Lines: 18 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: kevin@embra.compulink.co.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <5aub82$hhu@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Dear people, I have a good friend with breast cancer who is searching for a licensed radiologist who would be willing to act as an expert witness in a lawsuit. Excellent compensation will be provided for reports and/or court appearance if necessary. Travel expenses will be covered as well. She lives in northern Vermont, but the radiologist can be from anywhere. If anyone can help out with a name, address, or phone number she would be most appreciative. Thanks! You can reach Carolyn at: (908)-832-5000. Or: c/o Jennifer Or: Carolyn 4 Tamarack Lane Box 75 Califon, N.J. 07830 West Burke, VT 05871 Or, email me and I'll forward it: mag@sover.net See attachment for additional info. From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Wed Jan 08 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Miroslaw Kata Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: How to isolate SIN-1 from brain? Date: 9 Jan 1997 01:46:10 -0800 Organization: Institute of Pharmacology Lines: 24 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: odonnell@sasa.gov.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <5b2ep2$gjt@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Dear Newsletters, I'm looking for method which I could use for isolating SIN-1 (3-morfolinosydnoinimine, NO donor) from rat brain. SIN-1 was injected to blood but I need to know a level in brain. Every suggestion are appreciated. Sincerely, Miroslaw Kata ----------------------------------------- Miroslaw Kata Institute of Pharmacology 12 Smetna Street 31-343 Krakow Poland tel. 048 12 374022 w. 342 fax. 048 12 374530 e-mail: kata@rabbit.if-pan.krakow.pl From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Wed Jan 08 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: "BioClin B.V." Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: digital pH measurement Date: 9 Jan 1997 07:19:24 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 8 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: odonnell@sasa.gov.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <5b329s$jo4@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net We are looking for a company which produces, or is able and interested in the development of a digital pH-meter for consumer use. This device is to be used by women to determine the vaginal pH in order to correct the pH with the appropriate acidic or saline vaginal flush in order to help to control vaginal infections Drs A. Goedbloed topfloor@xs4all.nl From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Sun Jan 12 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Linette Granen Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: 12th Annual Conference on Human Retrovirus Testing Date: 13 Jan 1997 01:21:51 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 9 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: odonnell@sasa.gov.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <5bcurf$3ro@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net The Association of State & Territorial Public Health Laboratory Directors announces the 12th Annual Conference on Human Retrovirus Testing, February 25-28, 1997 at Stouffer's Renaissance Hotel, Houston, Texas. Poster abstracts will be welcomed; deadline for receipt of abstracts is January 31, 1997. Tentative schedule includes plenary session, variants panel discussion, clinical and diagnostic dilemmas panel discussions, and exhibits by vendors. Registration fee is $185 by February 1, 1997 and $225 after February 1, 1997. For more information, please contact Anne Ulm at ASTPHLD at (202) 822-5227. From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Mon Jan 13 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: FERNANDO BAPTISTA Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: software Date: 14 Jan 1997 02:49:44 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 1 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: odonnell@sasa.gov.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <5bfoc8$knm@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net I'm looking for software of differential diagnosis. Any sugestion? From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Mon Jan 13 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Richard Wang Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: Cyanmethemoglobin Reagent Kits wanted Date: 14 Jan 1997 01:42:48 -0800 Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA) Lines: 14 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: odonnell@sasa.gov.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <5bfkeo$cm0@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Please advise the contact info for those dealing the above to detect enemia for adults and children. Thanks for your early info. Richard -- info116@multi-level.com Autoresponder Make your FREE web at: http://www.wwln.com/fido/156821489.html http://www.gldb.com/htm/?HAI00532 Hotel Express Membership $15.00/year (Hotel 50% Discount). E-mail Request From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Mon Jan 13 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: "Stephen P Barrett [Medicine]" Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: VDRL/RPR on CSF Date: 14 Jan 1997 09:41:27 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 15 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: odonnell@sasa.gov.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <5bggg7$4lb@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Does anyone know of a commercial VDRL/RPR kit that is recommended for use on spinal fluid samples? Steve Barrett --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. S.P. Barrett, Microbiology Department, St. Mary's Hospital Praed St., London, W2 INY Phone UK 01717251572 Fax UK 01717251856 From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Mon Jan 13 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Gustavo Palacios Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: REQUEST FOR SUPPORT Date: 14 Jan 1997 01:44:44 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 136 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: odonnell@sasa.gov.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <5bfkic$cne@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net REQUEST FOR SUPPORT NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY "DR. CARLOS G. MALBRANO Buenos Aires, Argentine In 1997 this Institute will suffer a reduction of 37% in its budget for supplies and 13% in its budget for personnel. In December 26, 1996 as part of what is called the "2nd Reform of the Public Sector", government authorities fires 101 professionals, technicians and administrative personnel from the 7 National Institutes of Health. The National Institute of Microbiology (INM) "Dr. Carlos G. Malbran" (the biggest of these 7 Institutes) is the microbiological reference laboratory of the Health Ministry. Since its foundation in 1916, has been a pioneer in controlling and managing infectious diseases in Latin-America. This scientific tradition has allowed the INM to achieved high specialization in different areas of Virology, Bacteriology, Parasitology and Mycology, relevant for the Public Health of our population. Presently the INM hosts the reference centers for the most important infectious diseases such as cholera, diarrhea, respiratory infections, hepatitis, meningitis, sexually transmitted diseases among others. This centers are the head of the national laboratory network and produces unique information, used for preventing infectious diseases, evaluation of vaccination campaigns and early outbreak detection and control. The recent detection and management of a hantavirus outbreak in the south of the country, and the present outbreak of cholera in the north are clear examples of the important role the INM plays in the epidemiological surveillance of infectious diseases. In this regard, the INM plays also a unique role from the social point of view by offering high complexity diagnostic methods that in many cases are not performed in any other private or public institution. Other important role of the Institute is the formation of human resources that fulfills not only national needs but also the needs of several other Latin-American countries. Besides, the INM is also the only public institution presently producing several biologicals such as anti-rabies sera, rabies vaccine, tetanus vaccine, intravesical BCG, tuberculin PPD, antiserum for local species of snake venoms and anti-arachnid sera. Finally, the INM is also the institution where the quality control of vaccines used in the national plans, and other biologicals (such as diagnostic kits used in blood banks) is being routinely performed. For the last 25 years, with the appearance of new diseases such as AIDS, the emerging of new viruses such as hantavirus, the re-emerging of known diseases such as cholera, and the continuous appearance of new vaccines, the INM has increase its key role in the National Public Health System. Nevertheless, a 40% reduction in the personnel budget suffered during the same period (including a 16% reduction occurred in 1992 during the "1st Reform of the Public Sector") weakened some of its functions, mainly its research activities. We suspect that the present lay off of trained technicians, professionals, and capable administrative personnel with specific expertise in the many specialized areas the INM is involved, is not an isolated budgetary problem but an organized plan destined to transfer to the private sector the control of the public health in the country. In this regard, is specially suggestive the recent publication of the book "Proposal for the Reform of the Public Sector" representing the opinion of a powerful economic research foundation (FIEL, Fundacion de Investigaciones Economicas Latinoamericanas) of Argentine. FIEL is recognized not only for its economic studies but also for the great impact its proposals have on the opinion of political leaders. The previously mentioned book is surprisingly proposing the transfer of the reference laboratories of the Institute and the responsibilities concerned with the epidemiological surveillance of infectious diseases to the private sector. We believe the National Government has to control and pursue the health of Argentine population and cannot refuse these indelegable responsibilities. In this regard, the previously mentioned reduction in the 1997 budget for supplies and personnel is also accompanied by an increase in the budget for new equipment and buildings. Without capable personnel and enough supplies, what are we building, rebuilding and equipping laboratories for? Fighting this lay off policy, we have proposed the transfer of funds originally destined for equipment to the personnel item of the budget, in order to save the Oknow howO patrimony of the Institute. Anyway, the budget for new equipment can be recovered considering a Congress law already approved for 1997 that assigns extra funds from a new tax to a list of Hospitals and Health Institutes (including INM). Instead, the government has been reluctant to re-consider the political decision responsible of this massive lay off. Moreover, government authorities are arguing that this is only a reduction in some bureaucratic personal of the Institute. This is not true. The present lay off of 49 persons in the INM includes: an internationally awarded professional responsible of the production of intravesical BCG (successfully used in the treatment of bladder cancer); the two professionals responsible of the quality control of diagnosis kits usually used in blood banks for the diagnosis of infectious diseases; the professional head, a technician and administrative personnel of the laboratory that produces antisera for typing bacterias such as shigella, salmonella, E. coli, and cholera; a professional of the Bacterial Department finishing his doctoral degree in the Institute Pasteur; the professional head of the animal facility; the professional responsible of the snake sector in the animal facility (during the last four years he had developed a program that enable the inbreed of local snake species used in the production of snake's venoms antisera); the only two technicians with expertise in the inoculation of venoms in horses; one of the two drivers responsible of transportation of supplies, antigens and antisera between the Institute and field facility; and technical and administrative staff with specific expertise in the many specialized areas the INM is involved. It is yet more disappointing that all this services will surely disappear because the "Reform" is not only laying off the people with the "know how", but also getting ride of its positions (with the explanation that they are not necessary any more...??), unableing the future affiliation of new staff for keeping all this important functions alive. The professional, technical, and administrative personnel of the National Institute for Microbiology have decided in assembly last December 12, 1996 to protest starting an ongoing strike and a peaceful 24 hour permanence of all the staff, other affiliated personnel and fired workers at their site of work. Nevertheless, we are guaranteeing the free access of personnel, authorities, and patients to the Institute, the right to work for the few not joining the strike, and the proper and quick response in any health emergency. Finally we are requesting your international support because government authorities are explaining to the press that the present reform is similar to other reforms already performed in developed countries to improve their health systems. Our government does not seem to realize on the importance of an institution as the INM for the public health system, so we greatly appreciate if you can send your support by fax to the following government authorities: Dr. Alberto Mazza, Health Minister 54-1-381-6075 Mr. Jorge Rodriguez, Primer Minister 54-1-331-9658 Dr. Carlos Saul Menem, President 54-1-342-8618 Dr. M. C. Freire, President APROINM, Professional Association of the INM 54-1-303-2210 Thanking you for your time and support in advance, Dr. Maria Cecilia Freire Ruben Mosquera President Internal Committee APROINM ATE-INM Public Sector Workers Union From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Wed Jan 15 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: "Linda St. James" Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: Upcoming Career Meeting in SFO Date: 16 Jan 1997 02:16:16 -0800 Organization: Search Masters International Lines: 47 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: odonnell@sasa.gov.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <5bkv5g$pi0@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Presentation Title: Designing a Blueprint For Your Future in Science Speaker:Dave Jensen, Managing Director Search Masters International, Sedona, Arizona Location: American Women In Science Meeting, CHIRON CORPORATION, 4560 Horton Ave, Emeryville, CA Food and drink, all Scientists and Students Welcome When: Thursday, January 23rd, 1997, at 6:30 PM Abstact: Have you ever noticed that the people you know who have done the best with their career choices always seemed to have had some kind of plan? Just like anything else, those who plan ahead tend to get there ahead of the rest of us. A Career Vision Statement will provide guidance to your career that you may need to fall back on from time to time. Certainly, a one-page-or-less document cannot serve as a road map through every twist and turn of your career, but it can point out a desired destination and help you remember the reasons why you set that course in the first place. In this short hands-on workshop, the speaker will introduce you to career planning tools that will help put your next five years in sharp focus. The meeting is geared to the science career. Writing a vision statement is a cross between writing down your long-term goals, and writing a 3mission statement.=B2 Big corporations have written mission statements for years; sometimes they print the company1s mission i= n short form on the back of business cards. This is the ultimate in concise writing. Although you won1t be trying to fit your vision statement on the back of a business card, brevity will still be important. Your speaker wil= l provide you with examples of how others have successfully written the Career Vision Statement and the advantages that have resulted. Creative thinking tools such as Mindmapping will be discussed and used in the development of ideas that you can use later to complete the process of writing your vision statement. Presented through the cooperation of AWIS East Bay Chapter, Chiron Corporation, and Search Masters International of Sedona, Arizona. More info: email to lindasj@sedona.net From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Wed Jan 15 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Jbltools Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: Meridian Diagnostics Date: 16 Jan 1997 08:37:14 -0800 Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Lines: 2 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: odonnell@sasa.gov.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <5bllfq$73m@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Looking for feedback on experience with this company. Any comments as to accuracy of the tests and level of support given to the laboratory. From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Wed Jan 15 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Mark Blight Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: Flame Spectrometer? Is this what I need? Date: 16 Jan 1997 02:17:41 -0800 Organization: Universite Paris-Sud, France. Lines: 44 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: odonnell@sasa.gov.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <5bkv85$psf@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Hello, I am a molecular biologist by training and so am a bit rusty on some of th= e apparatus and techniques that can be used for more chemical type studies. However, I am interested in determining the "purity" of a complex mixture = (a plant extract) with respect to other contaminating mixtures from, for example, other plan= t species. I also need to process many samples with great rapidity and so organic extraction= and HPLC etc are probably too slow. I was wondering if the absorption spectra (like for= stellar objects) of a reference sample could be compared to an unknown and additional absorpti= on bands subtracted to help identify the possible contaminant by comparison to a da= tabank of potential contaminating substances (or mixtures). Like I said, I'm not ver= y familiar with the techniques that might be employed or the equipment. So, would I need a= flame spectrometer (or is that a photometer?) to generate the absorption spectra= ? And can anyone with more experience give me an idea if this might work? Thanks for any suggestions, Please reply by e-mail. Mark _______________________________________ Dr. Mark A. Blight, Institut de G=E9n=E9tique et Microbiologie, CNRS URA 1354, B=E2timent 409, Universit=E9 de Paris XI, 91405 Orsay cedex, France. Tel: +33 1 69 15 66 99 Fax: + 33 1 69 15 78 08 e-mail: BLIGHT@IGMORS.U-PSUD.FR _______________________________________ From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Wed Jan 15 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Stephane Pasteau Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: Duck female specific nucleic probe Date: 16 Jan 1997 03:14:04 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 17 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: odonnell@sasa.gov.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <5bl2hs$1l2@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net I'm looking for a nucleic probe that I could use for sexing a duck female. I know that it exists specic probes on chicken W chromosome. Does anybody know if probes like that exist for the duck and if not, can I use chicken probes on the duck. Last question, could anybody give me such a probe. Thank you in advance for answers (you can use my email) Dr Stephane PASTEAU Institut Pasteur de Lille Service de Recherche et D=E9veloppement Domaine du CERTIA 369, rue Jules Guesde - B.P. 39 59651 VILLENEUVE D'ASQ cedex tel. : (33) 03-20-43-86-67 fax. : (33) 03-20-43-86-66 e.mail : Stephane.Pasteau@pasteur-lille.fr From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Thu Jan 16 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Stephane Pasteau Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: Duck female specific nucleic probe Date: 17 Jan 1997 01:46:11 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 15 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: odonnell@sasa.gov.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <5bnhp3$qk5@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net I'm looking for a nucleic probe that I could use for sexing a duck female. I know that it exists specic probes on chicken W chromosome. Does anybody know if probes like that exist for the duck and if not, can I use chicken probes on the duck. Last question, could anybody give me such a probe. Thank you in advance for answers (you can use my email) Dr Stephane PASTEAU, DVM, PhD Institut Pasteur de Lille, Service de Recherche et D=E9veloppement Domaine du CERTIA, 369, rue Jules Guesde - B.P. 39 59651 VILLENEUVE D'ASQ cedex, France tel. : (33) 3-20-43-86-67 fax. : (33) 3-20-43-86-66 e.mail : Stephane.Pasteau@pasteur-lille.fr From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Sun Jan 19 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Leclipteux Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: MoAb against 40/41 Adenovirus Date: 20 Jan 1997 07:34:32 -0800 Organization: Liege University Lines: 3 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: odonnell@sasa.gov.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <5c03a8$rov@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net I am looking for monoclonal antibodies specifically directed against strain 40/41 of Adenovirus. Commercial purchase is not a problem. Any info would be helpful. Many thanks. From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Sun Jan 19 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Eric Masseus <100577.3707@compuserve.com> Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: E-Forum Med Lab Technology Date: 20 Jan 1997 07:36:00 -0800 Organization: Gooi-Noord Hospital, Dept Clin Chem, Netherlands Lines: 9 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: odonnell@sasa.gov.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <5c03d0$rut@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net On the E-Forum of Medical Laboratory Technology you will find about 150 links to relevant sites. Part of the E-Forum is also the official site of the Dutch Society for bioMedical Laboratory Technologists. Suggestions are appreciated. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Eric_Masseus_eforum/ From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Mon Jan 27 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Daedalus Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: Nervography Date: 28 Jan 1997 02:52:40 -0800 Organization: John H. McCannon Lines: 11 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: odonnell@sasa.gov.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <5cklpo$bir@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Has anyone come across this diagnostic/research tool? -- Daedalus http://www.netgsi.com/users/tandric/ tandric@netgsi.com Daedalus-1@msn.com Friends do not let friends buy squat from Logitech! From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Mon Jan 27 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: "Marco Radice, PhD" Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: Retrieving Antibodies Date: 28 Jan 1997 02:02:11 -0800 Organization: University of Padova Lines: 14 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: odonnell@sasa.gov.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ckir3$720@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Hello to the net's people. I am looking for antibodies to rabbit (even not specific) collagen type I, II, III, IX, X and XI and to the proteoglycan aggrecan. Others matrix antibodies are welcome. Antisera are to be used for immunohistochemistry on frozen as well as on paraffin embedded specimens. Please send suggestion directly to me. cheers From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Tue Jan 28 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Bob Freeman Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: RE: VDRL/RPR on CSF Date: 29 Jan 1997 02:02:50 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 37 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: odonnell@sasa.gov.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <5cn78a$co9@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_01BC0D5E.1BD40D20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For VDRL on CSF, any of the commercial systems are good. We use the Difco product. Only the VDRL can be used on CSF, since RPR is not accepted (unless the rules have changed since I last looked at the references). Drop me a line at work if you want part numbers, etc. Imperial County Public Health lab: email: icphlab@icoe.k12.ca.us --------------------- Bob Freeman BtB Sofftware PO Box 2215 El Centro, CA 92244 http://www.btbsoftware.com/bactbob Phone/Fax 619-353-6623 ------=_NextPart_000_01BC0D5E.1BD40D20 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

For VDRL on CSF, any of the commercial = systems are good.
We use the Difco product.
Only the VDRL can be = used on CSF, since RPR is not accepted (unless the rules have changed = since I last looked at the references).
Drop me a line at work if you = want part numbers, etc.
Imperial County Public Health lab: =   email: = icphlab@icoe.k12.ca.us
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Bob Freeman
BtB = Sofftware
PO Box 2215
El Centro, CA 92244
http://www.btbsoftware.com/bactbob
Phone/Fax 619-353-6623

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